NYPD Carts Off Dozens of Columbia Student Protesters on Buses
Officers in the New York Police Department entered Columbia University after sunset on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after students protesting the war in Gaza broke into and occupied a campus building, according to its student radio station and The New York Times.
Police entered Hamilton Hall through a second-story window after erecting an elevated bridge with an emergency services truck. Some ascended the ladder with their guns drawn, according to The Washington Post.
Other officers swept an all-but-abandoned encampment on a nearby lawn, shining flashlights into tents as they searched for occupants.